Originally posted by manganesejolt
Really great post. The way I usually try to explain it to people who are still asleep and can't believe me is kind of a shorter version of what
you've done--I say "Look, I can't take you aboard a UFO, I can't prove beyond a doubt that they exist. What I *can* prove is that there was a
coverup of *something*. There's a paper trail. There are people who were involved who are willing to talk about it. There are documents available
via FOIA that confirm investigations and imply a concerted effort to hush things up. So if there was nothing going on, what on earth (or rather not
on earth) was the gov't bothering to try to conceal?"
That's a great way to get people to start looking in to the subject, but sadly there's an argument against this. I call it the
Walter B. Smith & Duke Gildenberg theory. The reason for the ruse, as Smith
put it, was, "
psychological warfare." I think Duke put it best, "Every
[Skyhook] flight we flew generated UFO reports. In fact for awhile we were even using it as a backup tracking system. We would call up a town and ask,
'Did anyone see a UFO this afternoon? Yeah, one to the ... Okay, what direction, to the south? Okay keep an eye on it.' We allowed them to remain
UFO reports, with the hope being once they got over the Soviet Union they'd still be registered as UFOs instead of as our reconnaissance balloons."
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What doesn't make sense is why the cover-up hasn't been lifted some 18 years after the end of the cold war. I suppose the argument could be made, we
still have reconnaissance projects that illegally overfly friendly territory. Therefore we're still using UFOs as an explanation for our clandestine
operations.
However if that were the case it also leads me to believe that the US would
want to admit UFOs are real. Though, I could also see the advantage
of leaving it ambiguous. Not confirming whether it's US or some non-terrestrial entity allows foreign dignitaries to speculate just how advanced the
United States actually is.
The real reason we know as fact that this isn't the United States or some other world government, is because there would be reams of paperwork
describing these kinds of false-flag operations that would have turned up in court enforced FOI discoveries and fact-finding inquiries demanded by
congressional committees. We also wouldn't have people like Milton Torres coming forward saying they were told to shoot down UFOs. It also wouldn't
make sense for the US to buzz their own planes. Likewise, why would the US conduct massive studies in to a phenomenon (Project Twinkle, Project Sign,
Grudge, Bluebook, etc) which could be attributed to its own manufacture? It would be a waste of time, resources, and man-power and could possibly
expose the cover-up. It doesn't make sense.
[edit on 27-2-2009 by Xtraeme]